Chapter Twenty-Four: Not Falling, Just Not Flying Again
Delphinium pursed her lips.
Although she left school very early, Delphinium also went to school that year......
Of course, she knew what it would be like to enter campus with such an ugly nickname and make it her first impression in front of all her classmates...... What kind of school violence will it bring?
Not to mention, Wendy's symptoms were so pronounced back then—unlike regular bird spirits, with only "ear feathers" on the back of their ears. He has a pair of real wings...... I just can't fly.
The bones and hearts of birds are easy to fly. With human body weight and heart strength, it simply cannot support wing-driven flight.
Maybe it's because I realize that although I have bird-like wings, I can't fly at all...... He will join Peter Pan's Neverland Legion.
The turmoil caused by the Peter Pan incident lasted for many years, and the children he abducted were frightened by him and said, "If you go back, your parents will be so angry that they will kill you." Those children who have left their parents from the willful age of six or seven, seven or eight years old, and who yearn for freedom, certainly do not understand what death is, what parents are, and what love is.
They put their trust in their leader...... But although Peter Pan himself will not grow up, these children will.
Wendy joined the Nevermore Legion since she was eight years old, which is considered an older group. There were more than a dozen children older than him, and by the time they reached the age of thirteen or fourteen, their intelligence had improved dramatically as their bodies and brains developed. They learn to be "suspicious" for the first time when they instinctively begin to empathize with parents who are attacked by them and curse and cry after their children are taken away.
It was an eight-year-old girl who triggered all this.
She had just started school when she fell out with her family because she didn't want to do her homework, saying that she was going to run away from home. Peter Pan sensed her longing for freedom, and he was already a little arrogant at the time, and he went straight to capture the girl without waiting for her to leave her parents' view.
And her parents' crying and begging for mercy made the girl soften. But instead of breaking free right away, she wanted to see more of her parents praying for her return.
But when she arrives at Neverland, Peter Pan realizes that he has caught the wrong person - she is not a child who longs for innocence and freedom, but a willful and undisciplined person who does not want to obey anyone. She also disapproved of Peter Pan's position as the leader, and clamored to go home to see it. At that time, there was a fourteen-year-old boy who relented.
They have just reached puberty, and they have a sense of the opposite sex in ignorance. Even though the girl's willfulness made the other brothers and sisters hate her and not play with her, the teenager still decided to secretly go back for her to "see if her parents have repented".
As a result, the teenager accidentally meets the parents who love their daughter too much, and they find out.
The teenager who was scared and wanted to run away was saved by the girl's parents who were begging. The teenager is also on a whim...... Even though Peter Pan warned them many times not to talk to treacherous adults, he made a rebellious decision to listen to it.
It was when he heard this that he felt the hardship of his parents and learned how many people had become unhappy due to the reckless behavior of the "Nevermore Island Army" on the island of happiness.
He repented and went back to tell the other brothers what he had gained. After thinking about it carefully, I decided to go home and have a look.
But he was still a young man, and he didn't realize the danger of Peter Pan or the ideas his actions would bring. So in this way, in front of the public and in full view, he seriously told Peter Pan his feelings, and said that he would go home to see.
Children are always susceptible to infection and drive. The teenager said that he cried, and the children also said that they wanted to go back and see. Peter Pan realizes that his authority is under threat - so he pretends to be merciful, releases the boy back, and brutally kills him after he leaves.
However, the "fire" brought back by the boy has already begun to burn.
Those thirteen or fourteen-year-old brothers and sisters died one after another. Until then, children were reluctant to trust adults – a deeply ingrained belief they had acquired since they came to Nevermore Island.
Wendy was the first child to decide to ask for an adult's help, the only child to break Peter Pan's rule and end the five-year-long Peter Pan Affair.
And like Peter Pan's false threat to them—
- He was really betrayed by those grown-ups.
The executive department, which received his request, did not trust his words in the first place, and then the leisurely investigation and vacation caused his only two friends to die because of it;
The media who learned all this did not follow the agreement with him at the beginning and hide his name and photo, but secretly exposed everything for the sake of traffic, inadvertently promoting the birth of the nickname "whistleblower";
The teachers at the school arranged for him to go to school with children who were four or five years younger than him, but they did not stop them from shouting the nickname "whistleblower".
It's like the code name "inferior".
The difference is that the code name of the inferior is chosen by himself, based on a desire for self-destruction.
But Wendy doesn't like this code name at all, and can even be said to be disgusted and fearful. And when he finished tutoring, with the illusion of escaping from all this, he happily skipped a grade to middle school and studied with his peers......
He heard the familiar code name from those strange classmates again.
- "The Informer".
And what is different from the previous one...... By this time, the Peter Pan affair had already begun to ferment.
At that time, the seven empty islands began to feverishly implement the "first consensus". That is, "under no circumstances may any organization or individual deprive another person of his or her life by violent or non-violent means", including, of course, the life of the offender.
Despite the huge economic losses caused by Peter Pan and his Neverland Legion; Regardless of the people who were killed by the "Eternal Island Legion Collective Evil", there are sixteen people who have clear evidence and killed by his own hands. And all are minors.
But the adults, in order to show their "compassion for others", did not deprive Peter Pan of his life - anyway, it was a very small number of people on the island of happiness who really suffered economic losses or children who were taken away. For many more, Peter Pan is just a distant legend.
Until then, there was a death penalty for Sky Island. Since then, the Seven Empty Islands have abolished all death sentences.
In the end, Peter Pan was punished by keeping him in prison for life as a warden—both as atonement and as a threat. Peter Pan was cruel, which also raised the level of danger in prisons in people's minds.
As a result, Wendy is betrayed by the adults again.
…… Although Delphinium didn't know, what Wendy thought at the time.
But she thought that when Wendy learned that Peter Pan would not be sentenced to death, she would be so frightened that she couldn't sleep or wake up from a nightmare.
And for Wendy, something even crueler soon happened.
After the demon "Peter Pan" was mercifully forgiven, he became a star in prison because of the huge traffic caused by the name "Peter Pan" and the fact that he was once known for his deeds as a fairy tale writer.
This does not allow the fairy tales he wrote to be handed down, because the fairy tales he wrote are too profound and profound. Although liked by the experts, the children did not like it.
But as his deeds became known, the children who had been kidnapped by him and committed evil with him began to panic.
They are also slowly growing up at this time.
In order to protect themselves from persecution and to increase their conversation, they told a huge lie together - they glorified the cruel, violent, and absurd acts of the Nevermore Island Legion, so that Peter Pan became a child's dream, a "child king" with a childlike heart but did bad things. Their arrest by Peter Pan has become the envy of their classmates.
As a result, Wendy, as a "whistleblower", suffered more persecution.
Peter Pan did not lie to him.
When children become adults, the innocent cruelty in them does not become merciful because of it - only the meek become meek. Cruel people are just as cruel when they grow up.
It's just that they once plucked the wings of butterflies, and now they chose to pluck the wings of their former brothers.
The last report found by Delphinium was that a student at a high school had attempted suicide. The scene was also coded.
Although that does not prove that the person who commits suicide is the "whistleblower".
However, by investigating the school student source report of the same month, Delphinium found that Wendy was nominally "transferred" after that, but Delphinium checked the reports of other schools and he was not transferred to any school.
That is, he was essentially expelled from school.
Eventually, he was admitted to Tian'en University a year later.
Since then, he has changed his codename.
Delphinch finds a new student named "Wendy" from the student roster at Tenn University, and Wendy calls herself "Sheath".
Yes, before he came into contact with Alice, he was already a "sheath".
At that time, he already had a knife in his heart.
At that time, Wendy's appearance was completely different from that of the "whistleblower...... His countenance has become resolute and calm, no longer the neutral appearance that gave the impression of cowardice, weakness and deception as in the past.
But in another campus report, he was still referred to as a "whistleblower" by some of his classmates.
Apparently his identity was exposed. However, unlike middle school, college students are more utilitarian and sober...... Because Sheath has good grades and is also an active member of the swordsmanship club, his classmates recognize and accept him. At this time, the "whistleblower" became a demeaning treatment to him by those who hated him, and more people were willing to call him a "sheath" - for example, other classmates in the same club.
Delphinch, who did not get the permission issued by the Ministry of Cybersecurity, could not directly check his personal chip data. However, she went to check the hospitals on Happiness Island during the same period, and found that Wendy was hospitalized in one of them and underwent plastic surgery.
He suffered multiple limb fractures and facial injuries that required cosmetic surgery.
An unknown person paid for him, using a credit stick with a 50% premium and no credits.
This is the reason why Delphinium, although the hacker is not strong, is the best cyber detective on the island of happiness.
In the past few years, she has been relying on her position to establish a social worker pool of her own. As long as she needs, she can slowly find information that can link the clues from the reports of recent decades and all the internal records and reports of various units and institutions.
Thanks to the continuous confirmation from the side of these materials that ordinary people cannot hold at the same time, the delphinium was able to capture the traces of belonging to the former "informer" from the "sheath" that even changed its appearance.
"He started from the time he failed to commit suicide and awakened his spiritual energy......
Delphinium muttered.
It's riding the wind and flying freely...... But it can't be captured by the "eyes" of the media. It was probably because of that psionic ability that he didn't fall to his death directly.
Behind him, the man with wings jumped out from the top of the tall building.
At that time, he probably didn't want to die.
But this time, I guess I didn't get to fly like I did when I was a kid.